繳稅明細其實不算是待辦事項,它比較像債務宣告,告訴你又欠國家多少錢.五月報稅的時候,國稅局網站就已經告訴納稅人預估的稅金了.對於繳稅的費用,心裡早已有個底.
但是今年拿到繳稅明細時我卻特別興奮,因為這是我第一次在法國申報USANA收入,雖然以前上過課,但是沒實際報過稅,那些稅務名詞對我而言就是很抽象.
The Road Not Taken
-- Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
《未行之路》
--羅伯‧福洛斯特
黃色的樹林裡分出兩條路,
可惜我不能同時去涉足,
我在那路口久久佇立,
我向著一條路極目望去,
直到它消失在叢林深處。
但我卻選了另外一條路,
它荒草萋萋,十分幽寂,
顯得更誘人,更美麗;
雖然在這兩條小路上,
卻很少留下旅人的足跡。
那天清晨落葉滿地,
兩條路都未經腳印污染。
啊,留下一條路等改日再見 !
但我知道路徑延綿無盡頭,
恐怕我難以再回返。
也許多少年後在某個地方,
我將輕聲嘆息將往事回顧:
一片樹林裡分出兩條路──
而我選擇了人跡更少的一條,
從此決定了我一生的道路。

拙琴,10/07/2013